I have a graph in the developer edition which I want to export schema and data mappings to another machine which has the enterprise edition installed. The target machine already has existing graphs which I do not want to lose. How can this be done?
Thank you.
The schema, data mappings, and queries can be exported with the Export Solution command on the GraphStudio home page. You can then use Import Solution to import to another machine.
Note the following however:
Export Solution does not include the database data. If you have the original data files used to populate your graph, you should use the same files again. When you look at the imported solution, on the Data Mapping page, it will show some file names, but those are just references; it does not have the actual files. You should add and upload the files again, resulting in duplicate file icons on the Data Mapping page. After you have loaded the data to the new server, you can delete the duplicate file icons.
We are working on a product update in which Export/Import will give you the option to include the data.
If you do not have the original files, you can manually write out the data by writing queries which select and output each vertex type and each edge type to a CSV file.
Thank you.
The export/import solution option wipes out any existing graphs. I was thinking of surgically coping a graph from one TG database to another and I was considering writing a tool to do this, but its more than I can handle right now. Is this function part of the vision moving forward?
Hmmm. This is a really good idea.
I’ll see if @Szilard has time to look at it (he is the Python wizard on my team). It will probably be a Python job, and of course will take some time. How urgent is this?
That’s exactly one of the things I an planning to implement using pyTigerGraph. And indeed: how urgent is it?
Not urgent. One of the many things going through my mind related to frameworks and code generation tools.